From Sociological Images:
J.L. Bell at Oz and Ends counted the number of rumors about President G.W. Bush and President Obama that were identified and determined by rumor-validation site, snopes.com, to be true, false, a mixture of true and false, or uncertain. It turns out, there are a lot more rumors and a lot more false rumors about Obama than there were about Bush:
And the summary:
In less than two years, Obama rumor-mongers have had nearly twice the output that their Bush counterparts managed in eight years – 87 to 47. And while the Bush rumors split almost evenly true-false, false Obama rumors dwarfed the true ones. The false rumors about Obama outnumbered the total number of rumors about Bush. And while the lies about Obama are almost all negative, some of the false rumors about Bush are quite flattering, along the lines of the George Washington cheery tree rumor – like the rumor that had Bush paying for the funeral of a boy who had drowned near the Crawford ranch.
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4 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.I am not the least bit surprised, but it’s nice that someone did the research.
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You’ve got to be kidding me. Sure, maybe there were more lies about Obama because all right wingers are racist liars, or maybe it’s because even after he became president, people STILL didn’t know anything about Obama because he’d been in the public eye for two years, whereas Bush had been around for decades. This is Fox Newish type of reporting on your part.
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Oh man, I had a good little laugh at that. I love some satire in the early evening.
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I voted for Obama, but this is bogus research. This really says more about what snopes chooses to write about more than anything else.
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